February 17, 2007 - October 9, 2010

Georgia O’Keeffe’s Legacy in New Mexico

A long-term exhibit from the museum’s collection. Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) first painted in New Mexico during the summer of 1919.

April 20, 2007 - April 20, 2010

How the West is One: The Art of New Mexico

Featuring popular works from the early twentieth century including Marsden Hartley’s El Santo and John Sloan’s Ancestral Spirits.

September 12, 2009 - January 3, 2010

New Amsterdam: The Island at the Center of the World

Using recently uncovered archives and new scholarship, the exhibition will investigate the Dutch origins of New York as a diverse crossroads of goods and cultures. Among the highlights of the exhibition is the only surviving 17th-century document that records Peter Minuet’s legendary real estate deal with the local Lenni Lenape tribe for goods worth 60 guilders.

November 21

Inaugural Thomas Jefferson Wine Festival

The first Thomas Jefferson Wine Festival will feature the wineries of the Bedford Wine Trail as well as other regional Virginia wineries. Visitors will enjoy wine tastings, food, drink, live music, crafters, and much more! Throughout his life Thomas Jefferson was an advocate of the virtues of wine. His wine advice to merchants and friends opened channels for the importation of wine into the United States from France, Italy, Portugal and Spain. "Thomas Jefferson” (renowned interpreter Bill Barker, of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) will be present to talk about his love of wine and life at Poplar Forest, his retreat home. Additionally, Gabriele Rausse, often called the "father of Virginia wines" will be a featured speaker.